Building Microbial Forensics as a Response to Bioterrorism
- 26 September 2003
- journal article
- policy forum
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 301 (5641) , 1852-1853
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1090083
Abstract
Combating bioterrorism is a challenge to all of us. To be proactive, the U.S. Government has formalized the discipline of "microbial forensics" to deter and attribute perpetrators of such acts. This Policy Forum describes the foundations of the microbial forensics program: the creation of a national bioforensics laboratory, a partnership laboratory network, and a peer-consensus scientific working group and the promulgation of quality assurance guidelines.Keywords
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